Zagreus is a third-generation family winery in Bulgaria's Thracian Valley, near the town of Parvomay, built on vineyards the Kostadinov family began replanting in the late 1990s and grew into a 120-hectare organic estate by the mid-2000s.
Today it's run by Dimitar Kostadinov, who studied mechatronics in Austria before coming home to continue his father's and grandfather's work. In 2016, Dimitar started experimenting on the side with lower-intervention winemaking: native yeast, no additives, no filtration, and by 2021 that side project had grown into a small team effort known as the Natural Wine Fellows of Zagreus.
The whole estate is built around Mavrud, Bulgaria's ancient indigenous red grape, which Zagreus has made a point of preserving and experimenting with rather than replacing with more internationally recognized varieties. This Pet Nat rosé is one of those experiments: the same old Mavrud vines, made simply, using the ancestral method for sparkling wine.
